Extra-ordinary Authority meeting agenda May 2026

To: All members of the New Forest National Park Authority

Date: 24 April 2026

Extra-ordinary New Forest National Park Authority Meeting

Friday 1 May 2026

An Extra-ordinary meeting of the New Forest National Park Authority will be held on Friday 1 May 2026 at 10.00am in the Council Chamber, NFDC, Appletree Court, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, SO43 7PA.

Please note this meeting will not be live streamed or video recorded.

Part I of the meeting will be open to the Press and public.

Alison Barnes

Chief Executive/National Park Officer

Agenda

Part I

1. Apologies for absence

2. Declarations of interest

   Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in relation to items on the agenda for this meeting. (NB. When verbally declaring interests, members are also asked to complete the Disclosure of Interests at Meetings form).

3. Chair’s announcements
4. Minutes – the minutes of the last meeting (26 March 2026) will be held over for approval at the meeting in July.

5. Public Question Time

   The Chair will allow members of the public to ask questions make statements or present a petition on any matter on the agenda for this meeting or on any matter that falls within the Authority’s powers, subject to the procedures set out in Schedule 3 to the Authority’s Standing Orders.

   Any member of the public who wishes to address the meeting under this item should notify Vicki Gibbon (contact details at the end of this agenda) not less than two clear working days before the commencement of the meeting (i.e. by 5.00 pm on the Tuesday preceding the meeting) and indicate in what capacity he or she would like to speak, together with a contact telephone number.

6. Date of next meeting – Thursday 23 July 2026 at 10.00 am

Part II Items Which May Be Taken in the Absence of the Press and Public on the Grounds That Exempted Information Maybe Disclosed

Members are asked to resolved that the public be excluded from the meeting during the following item of business, as it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during this item, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 5, Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, and further that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, namely the need to avoid disclosing sensitive information relating to the Authority’s financial and business affairs.

7. Vernon Dene (AM 737/26) – to follow

Members are requested to sign the attendance register

Membership: John Adams, Gordon Bailey, Richard Clewer, Zoe Clewer, Mary Davies, David Harrison, Mel Kendal, Victoria Mander, Keith Mans, Ella Mason, George Meyrick, Adarsh Parekh, Caroline Rackham, Joe Reilly, Barry Rickman, Ann Sevier, Brice Stratford, Michael Thierry, Derek Tipp, Steve Trow, Malcolm Wade and James Wylor-Owen.

Details of the decisions taken at this meeting will be circulated in the formal minutes which the Authority will be asked to approve as a correct record at its next available meeting.

For further information on any of the reports for this meeting, details of decisions taken, or future meetings, please contact Nigel Stone, email nigel.stone@newforestnpa.gov.uk).

If you would like a copy of this agenda in large print, Braille or any alternative language or format, or if you wish to attend the meeting and have special requirements, please contact Vicki Gibbon on vicki.gibbon@newforestnpa.gov.uk or 01590 646647.